Shunji Iwai
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Shunji Iwai is a Japanese filmmaker, video artist, editor, and composer.
Iwai at the 2015 Annecy International Animated Film Festival
Swallowtail Butterfly (film)
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Swallowtail Butterfly is a 1996 Japanese crime film written, directed and edited by Shunji Iwai, starring Hiroshi Mikami, pop-singer Chara, and Ayumi Ito.
Shunji Iwai
…success helped break down the post-World War II barriers to Japanese films being shown there. In 1996, came the commercial and critical success of Swallowtail Butterfly, a multifaceted story of the fictional Yen Town, a city of immigrants in search of hope and a better life with three separate and distinct main characters…
Theatrical release poster